Les dovze clefs de philosophie de frere Basile Valentin ... : traictant de la vraye medecine metalique : plus l'Azoth, ou, Le moyen de faire l'or caché des philosophes : traduction francoise

by: Basilius Valentinus; Basilius Valentinus. Aureliae occultae philosophorum partes duae; Nuisement, Clovis Hesteau, sieur de. Poeme philosophic sur l'azoth des philosophes; Gobille, Jean, fl. 1659-1690

Publication date: 1660

Topics: Alchemy, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric

Publisher: Paris : Chez Pierre Moët ...

Collection: gettyalchemy; getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

A resetting of the 1st French ed. of 1624. Basil Valentine's Douze clefs apparently first appeared as Practica cum XII clavibus in Michael Maier's Tripus aureus (Frankfurt, 1618). His Azoth first appeared as Aureliae occultae philosophorum partes duae in Caillet's Theatrum chemicum, 1613. Cf. Yale, Alchemy

T.p. date of l'Azoth is 1659

Les douze clefs has symbolic engraved frontispiece. In addition, each of the 12 "clefs" is accompanied by a symbolic engraved plate signed: I. Gobille fecit. L'Azoth has separate t.p.'s for the work as a whole and for the Seconde partie, both with woodcut vignettes. Its ill. are in-text symbolic woodcuts. L'Azoth has separate pagination and signing

Poeme philosophic svr L'azoth des philosophes / par le sieur de Nvisement--P. 191-196

Library's copy bound with: Traicté de la nature de l'oeuf des philosophes / Bernard, comte de Treves. Paris, 1659

Hogart, R. Alchemy

Yale. Alchemy